Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHIf we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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More data is not always the answer.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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